|
My primary working material is magazine paper. Once collected, I cut or tear the paper by hand and mount it on Styrofoam (or similar material, often found or given to me) using ordinary sewing pins. I avoid glue, varnish, and other adhesives. A finished work can consist of hundreds of individually cut or torn pieces of paper and thousands of pins.
The imagery I create is partly a representation of the imagery found in the source material and partly a response to it. In one sense, I recycle images as well as paper. However, from the detritus of popular media imagery, I coax new meanings through repetitive layering, juxtapositions, and the intensity of the process itself. Although I term the work “mixed-media collage,” the process might best be described simply as drawing—or perhaps as drawing with paper and scissors instead of pencil or pen.
|
